[Outro]
Ring, my friend I said you'd callDoctor Robert
Ring, my friend I said you'd call
Doctor Robert
Doctor Robert

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About “Doctor Robert”

John Lennon was the principal author of this semi-autobiographical song, according to an interview with David Sheff:

Another of mine. Mainly about drugs and pills. It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tour.

What have the artists said about the song?

John and I thought it was a funny idea: the fantasy doctor who would fix you up by giving you drugs, [the song] was a parody on that idea. It’s just a piss-take. As far as I know, neither of us ever went to a doctor for those kinds of things. But there was a fashion for it and there still is. Change your blood and have a vitamin shot and you’ll feel better.